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Please discuss feature requests in community forums #5541

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josh-signal opened this issue Sep 29, 2021 · 1 comment
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Please discuss feature requests in community forums #5541

josh-signal opened this issue Sep 29, 2021 · 1 comment

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On Signal Desktop we rely on high-quality bug reports in order to triage, prioritize, diagnose, and fix the problems that users discover. We're excited about the enhancements that have been added to Signal recently and we want that momentum to continue.

However, the sheer volume of legacy issues, combined with submissions that do not follow the provided issue template, have created a situation where there are currently lots of stale open tickets. Most of these issues have been inactive for several years and they reference versions of Signal that are no longer available. Many open issues are essentially ad-hoc discussion threads or feature requests that are a better fit for the community forum.

Our aim is to get to a point where we can effectively track actionable issues in the GitHub repository. Community involvement plays a large role in our development and planning process, and we closely follow the forums and other feedback channels. Through these channels we collect the feedback and suggestions for feature requests, many of which we are working on every day.

We have already taken some steps to turn this repository into a functional issue tracker for bug reports:

  1. The issue template has been updated to indicate that GitHub issues should only be used to track existing bugs in Signal.
    • If you feel like you are unable to make an idea fit within the confines of the template, that might be a sign that you are about to submit something that isn't a bug.
    • If you disagree with the way that a feature is working (but it's working!) that's not a bug, and that feedback is best suited for the community forum.
    • If you have a suggestion for a new feature, that's also not a bug.
    • The community forum is available for all non-bug submissions and discussions. This feedback is highly valuable, but our GitHub issue tracker is not the right venue for questions, comments, or feature requests.
  2. We will routinely close issues that ignore or delete the issue template.
  3. Issues that go stale for a period of time will be routinely closed by stale bot.

Users are welcome to re-submit bug reports that follow the updated issue template and that still affect the current release of Signal. By re-submitting valid issues with up-to-date reproduction steps (and debug logs that were produced by a recent version of Signal) the developers will be better equipped to solve any underlying problems. Please include the legacy issue ID in your new submission if there is important context available in the old thread.

We need the community to help us with this step, and we sincerely appreciate your participation in this cleanup effort.

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Affected issues:

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